Word: pau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood, where no approaching stork goes long undetected by the heir-spotting magpies, Actor Pau! Newman and his Oscar-winning wife Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve) admitted it was true: face number three will arrive in April...
...amusing ending to one of my greatest 'feuds.' "* ··· A Paris court ruled that the public sale of an unexpurgated, 28-volume set of the complete works of the Marquis de Sade (TIME, Dec. 31) was an "outrage to morality." Paris Publisher Jean-Jacques Pau-vert, who had rashly tried to peddle "to specialists" the marquis' encyclopedia of all-out sadism, was let off with a $571 fine and a court order dictating that every last page of the pornography involved be destroyed...
...economy based on production for export to a diversified economy based on production for domestic use. The pattern of Brazil's economic past is a series of wonderful one-product export booms, invariably followed by abysmal busts. First came a 16th century boom in a red dyewood called pau-braza (literally, ember wood), which gave Brazil its name. In the 17th century Brazil became for a time the world's greatest exporter of sugar. Then came the gold rush; while it lasted, Brazil produced more than 40% of all the gold mined in the 18th century. The advent...
...Gilded Age. The time is ripe for a home-grown Henry Ford to show these new industrialists how to make really big money by paying productive wages, adopting the techniques of mass production, and selling more for less. On its record of communal resourcefulness, Sao Pau'o can and should produce the man to show...